Pololygamy: The Latest Sexual Revolution: Polyamory

The Latest Sexual Revolution: Polyamory

There is one day out of the year when you see sights of couples everywhere: Valentine’s Day. You see individuals out in stores buying roses, large teddy bears and grabbing the last remaining chocolate candy boxes that are left on the shelves. But if you are imagining a man and a woman as the couple you’re visioning, you are in for a surprise. A man and a woman isn’t the only way to go through life as how a couple should look. In fact, it is estimated over 100,000 monogamous people in the Unites States are performing polygamy secretly with their partner’s full permission. These popular nonmonogamous relationships do not match to the cultural norm of a loving couple in love for life. One of the most difficult aspects of multiculturalism is the determination to adapt to some cultural groups’ needs involving certain traditional practices that might clash with the ideas of multiculturalism and self-governing civil rights. Normally, many of these exercises have religious roots, but these are not limited. Some important cases are certain rights of opening exercises: spiritual and religious. For most of the cases, a smaller group’s traditional exercises are against the norms of a typical society but also organize a substantial aspect of the way of life for that certain culture. Some samples of polygamy in Islam, female circumcision in Eastern Africa nations, or Ta-moko, as referred to as tattooing of the face, in the culture of Maori. The most crucial topic around these established practices in the multiculturalism debate is the idea of agreement. Yet, not all exercises are achieved with the agreement of the subjects. Some cultures and historic periods are seen to embrace polyamory, while other cul...

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...jective as a theoretical matter. Furthermore, there are current issues with the classification of sexual orientation, as it presently exists, mostly with efforts to essentialize the class. These issues could be enhanced, at least to some degree, by introducing the classification to other kinds of sexual preferences, thus extending the attention and possibly reducing the theoretical load that attraction to one sex or the other or both is projected to bring. The significant bias that polyamorists face along with other nonmonogamists are both loaded by an establishing value of discrimination which encourage the move to enlarge the description of polyamory being as part of sexual orientation. “It is the hope that everyone will take this opportunity to question monogamy ‘as a preference’ or ‘choice’… and to do the intellectual and emotional work that follows.” (Emens 82)